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Brain exercises: Want a workout for your brain?

February 4, 2007 by Alvaro Fernandez

Very fun arti­cle in the Birm­ing­ham News today on Sharp­Brains and brain exer­cis­es, titled Want a work­out for your brain?.

The jour­nal­ist explains things very well and with great humor (for the humor, you need to read the arti­cle!). Here are some quotes:

- “Think of it as a gym­na­si­um for your mind,” Sharp­Brains CEO and co-founder Alvaro Fer­nan­dez says from his office in San Francisco.

- (On only doing cross­words) “That’s good, but, like your body, you don’t just exer­cise one part of the brain,” says Fer­nan­dez, who holds an MBA and a mas­ter’s degree in edu­ca­tion from Stan­ford Uni­ver­si­ty. “You need con­stant vari­ety, and new things, to keep your brain work­ing hard.”

- “He sees men­tal gym­nas­tics as the next main­stream adult trend and points out that ther­a­pists have long used a vari­ety of sim­i­lar exer­cis­es to help in the recov­ery of brain-injury patients. Ath­letes and air­plane pilots have had access to exer­cis­es designed to improve their periph­er­al vision and reac­tion times, Fer­nan­dez says.”

- “With Sharp­Brains co-founder Dr. Elkhonon Gold­berg, a clin­i­cal pro­fes­sor of neu­rol­o­gy at the New York Uni­ver­si­ty School of Med­i­cine, Fer­nan­dez has col­lect­ed what he says are the best com­put­er-based brain work­outs avail­able, includ­ing a pro­gram to help chil­dren with atten­tion deficits and anoth­er aimed at reduc­ing stress man­age­ment among busi­ness executives.”

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: analytical, bcg, Brain-Fitness, Brain-health, Brain-Training, brett-steenbarger, Cognitive-Training, Gopher, Health & Wellness, information-overload, learning-tips, Lifelong-learning, Memory-Training, mental-exercise, mental-fitness-training, Mental-Health, Mind-Fitness, Serious-Games, Shebilske, Womens-Health

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  1. G.C. Gupta says

    February 14, 2007 at 9:36

    Inter­est­ing and infor­mat­inve, espe­cial­ly the mate­r­i­al and exer­cizes for the kids.

  2. Alvaro says

    February 15, 2007 at 11:18

    Thanks for the feedback!

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